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Where to get European scrap price data

January 19, 2009

A Nerds of Steel reader in Australia wrote recently to ask where to find Turkish scrap prices. As we’re always trying to accelerate readers research and reduce their costs, I am following up with information on good sources of European scrap prices. Subscribers to Steel Business Briefing and Metal Bulletin can find European scrap prices […]

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Where to go to dig up the facts about iron ore

September 25, 2008

There has been a lot of news lately about how the largest iron ore producers want to change the traditional yearly contract negotiations with their biggest customers.  If you are trying to follow what’s going on and you need some background on the iron ore market and history, you can get some answers online through […]

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High steel prices tell us what to do

June 9, 2008

Martin Wolf, as he often does, wrote an interesting column in the Financial Times recently called The market sets high oil prices to tell us what to do. As $1,000/ton steel becomes an accepted fact of life it’s worth asking what the market is telling us to do about high steel prices. Martin Wolf offers […]

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SMA May 2008 presentation

May 22, 2008

Below is a presentation I made to the Steel Manufacturers Association’s annual members meeting in Washington, DC on May 20, 2008. The title was “Black Swans in the Steel Industry: What do They Mean?” (Of course the title is taken from the best selling book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.) My presentation identifies what I believe […]

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